Georgia Historical Society

Georgia Historical Society and Savannah-Chatham County School System's Teaching American History Program

Present

Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America 

A Lecture by Andrew Ferguson 

Thursday, May 7, 2009, at 7:00 p.m.

St. John's Episcopal Church

1 West Macon Street, Savannah 

Madison Square

free and open to the public - book sale and signing to follow

For more information, please call 912.651.2125 ext. 40

  
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Lincoln: Remembered or Forgotten

American journalist, author, and reawakened Lincoln buff Andrew Ferguson will lecture on his critically acclaimed book Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe’s America.  In his delightful and disarmingly funny book, Weekly Standard editor Ferguson explores the question “How do Americans commemorate Lincoln and what do our memories of him reveal about our visions of the good life?”  Ferguson traveled across America on a long field trip, his family in tow, to many of the places where Americans have chosen to remember – or to forget – Honest Abe as he dug deep into the revisionist phenomenon that surrounds America’s 16th President. The Washington Post has called Ferguson’s cultural insights “vivid and penetrating” and his writing “terrific.”  This work implores the reader to find humor in the many and varied ways a diverse America remembers its leaders.